Drives and controllers, System bios, Drives and controllers system bios – Sony PCV-E518DS User Manual

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Drives and Controllers

System BIOS

Diskette controller

765A-compatible (supports up to 2.88 MByte)

Diskette drive

1.44 MByte 3.5-inch MFDD

EIDE controller

Supports up to four EIDE drives (supports PIO Mode
4 EIDE drives and Ultra DMA/33 Mode drives)

IDE hard drive

PCV-E518DS: 17.28 GByte (bus-mastering EIDE
driver installed)

CD-R/RW drive

CD-R disc read: 24X (maximum performance).

*

CD-R disc write: 4X (maximum performance).

*

CD-RW disc read: 8X (maximum performance).

CD-RW disc write: 2X (maximum performance).

CD-ROM disc : 24X (maximum performance).

* Data on a CD-R disc is written at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 1X at the innermost track to 4X at

the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is
either 3.3X (4616 kbytes/s) or 3.4X (4709 kbytes/s), depending on your specific system. Data on a CD-R
disc is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10X at the innermost track to 24X at the outermost
track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s). The average data transfer rate is either 3.3X
(4616 kbytes/s) or 3.4X (4709 kbytes/s), depending on your specific system.

† Data on a CD-RW disc is written at a fixed transfer rate of 2X (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 100

kbytes/s), and is read at a fixed transfer rate of 8X (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kbytes/s).

‡ Data on a CD-ROM disc is read at a variable transfer rate, ranging from 10X at the innermost track to 24X

at the outermost track (the data transfer standard 1X rate is 150 kybtes/s). The average data transfer rate
is 17X (2550 kbytes/s).

Make and model

Phoenix-based

ROM

2Mbit flash-ROM

*

* Flash-ROM update utility is available from Sony’s web site at http://www.sony.com/pcsupport.

Passwords

User and supervisor passwords supported

Recovery boot block

Supported

Power management

APM 1.2

Advanced features

ACPI-1.0 compliant hardware for use with APM and
PNP BIOS APIs

Plug and Play devices

Supported with steerable DMA channels and
interrupts

Special features

PC-98 ready, multi-boot, PCI add-in card auto-
configure

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